Pence dismissed concerns about the most recent campaign overhaul – with the departure of Paul Manafort and the rise of Kellyanne Conway, Pence’s longtime pollster, and Steve Bannon, who previously ran the conservative news site Breitbart.
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On August 9, Trump caused another round of media frenzy after suggesting that supporters of gun rights could take action against Clinton if she won the election.
In 2014, for example, Nunn’s campaign assessed that it would need to get somewhere in the realm of 30 percent of the white vote in order to be competitive-and ultimately fell short, losing the state by 8 points overall to Republican David Perdue.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in West Bend, Wisconsin August 16. And there have been several.
Donald Trump spent a lot of money to raise money last month.
But Trump-allied Republicans saw the latest shakeup as a reason to believe that Trump was serious about eliminating distractions that threatened his chances, like scrutiny of Manafort’s work for pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine. The bulk, $5.6 million, went to Trump’s private jet company, as well as payments to various Trump buildings for office and living space, including Trump Tower in New York City ($881,000) and the Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida ($432,000). Instead, they put on a four-day pitch-black fantasia that would have sent Hunter S. Thompson screaming in terror out of the Quicken Loans Arena.
So far, the aide added, the Clinton campaign – which began airing general election ads in mid-June – has aired more than $70 million in ads.
The disclosure form provided by the Federal Election Commission for presidential candidates asks them to place assets in categories, the highest of which is “more than $50 million”.
Donald Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, sought to soften Trump’s pitch to black voters and thread the needle on their free trade positions in a wide-ranging interview that aired Monday.
As the race for the White House enters the final stretch, figures showed that Clinton has amassed significantly more financial firepower than her Republican rival.
“Preparing for a debate with him is a challenging task, but Secretary Clinton is looking forward to the debate”, Mood said.
Trump was already showing signs of cracking when he went off his prompter to ad lib some condescending lines aimed at African-Americans in a Friday evening speech in MI and pronounced that he would earn 95 percent of the black vote in November.
Separately, Trump again reached out to African-American voters, one of the groups he is lagging behind in significantly in opinion polls.
The answer is: nothing.
“As for Mr Trump, he needs to stop blaming everyone else and decide if he wants to behave like someone who wants to be President – or turn the nomination over to Mike Pence”. But reining in Trump may be hard.
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In addition to the $650 million liabilities, “a substantial portion of his wealth is tied up in three passive partnerships that owe an additional $2 billion to a string of lenders”, the Times said about debt that could significantly affect Trump’s wealth.
